You've been brainwashed by racist dogma into believing that all black people are unintelligent. Why, turn on the TV, watch any show or movie and you'll clearly see that black people are intelligent professors, teachers, philosophers, news anchors, sports commentators, political analysts, literary authors, human rights advocates, actors, computer scientists, engineers, doctors, chemists, physicists, historians, anthropologists... the list goes on and on.
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Anonymous2008-02-28 0:53
So obviously a troll.
>watch any show or movie
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Anonymous2008-02-28 12:26
>>1
ONLY BLACKS I SEE ARE THE DIRTY HOBOS THAT GO THROUGH THE THRASH IN KFC.
WHICH I WORK IN
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Anonymous2008-02-28 16:57
As an English/Lit major, I am constantly exposed to black authors and intellectuals, from Washington, DuBois, Dunbar, Chesnutt, Walker, Douglas, Hughes, Ralph Ellison, and many others. There is no way to ignore the vast body of black thought presented in modern education.
English is such psuedo-intellectual bullshit. Keep looking for deep political meaning in why the author used the word 'space' three times, faggot.
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Anonymous2008-02-28 20:13
Cornell Haynes Jr lamented his impoverishment when he wrote about his simple need for two pairs of shoes. O'Shea Jackson wrote that powerful white men are the ones who "give us guns and drugs, then [accuse us of exhibiting excessive criminal behavior]." Brandy Rayana Norwood reflects this sentiment when she asks "What about us?" De La Soul stated that we should not stop, but continue to get whatever it is we strive for. Curtis James Jackson III expressed a more pessimistic view, saying that he would inevitably spend the majority of his days occupying the bar, drinking his worries away while providing his friends with recreational drugs.
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Anonymous2008-02-28 20:41
>>4
How many of them are titled Doctor because they actually have a medical degree?
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Anonymous2008-02-29 0:06
>>6
lol blame the white man as usual. Fucking pathetic.
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cripfag2008-02-29 5:01
I enjoy watching the video of these black nobel laureates:
You have to focus on the intelligent members of the black community. Morgan Freeman is a perfect example, exhibiting compassion, wisdom, intelligence, and the right advice at the right time. All black people would do well to become Morgan Freeman.
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Anonymous2008-02-29 13:29
You have to focus on the intelligent members of the white community. I am a perfect example, exhibiting compassion, wisdom, intelligence, and the right advice at the right time. All white people would do well to become me.
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Anonymous2008-02-29 20:10
Surely you've seen the black nerd stereotype in school, the guy with glasses who likes computers, or has other typical nerdy interests, somewhat resembling Urkel in appearance. There are numerous cases of these smart black people. Even typical black people can have a percentage of nerdy qualities. This is the first step to a better black society.
You have to take a piss lying on your back so that it goes up in the air and splashes onto your face. I can do a perfect example, exhibiting compassion, wisdom, intelligence, and the correct wind speed adjustment at the right time. All people of my ethnic group would do well to become me.
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Anonymous2008-02-29 20:52
Jazz and other musical styles contributed immensely to the culture of America and the world. If there were no black people to create Jazz, we would be stuck with show tunes, barbershop, and oldies, with no knowledge of rock, video game music, or any of the more advanced styles we know today.
These kind of arguments are stupid, nobody knows how American history would turn out if there were no black people. You can't just say everything would be the same minus jazz/rock music. There would be many unforseeable ADVANTAGES (which we are missing out on now) as well as disadvantages.
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Anonymous2008-03-01 2:20
We would be listening to more annoying country music, at the very least.
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Anonymous2008-03-01 3:07
I believe jazz surpasses time and space and if there were no black people it would have come about anyway.
>>20
Even better, since jazz is a good tool for answering the question of how long it takes for piss to land on balls.
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Anonymous2008-03-01 12:13
Twenty year old black people are annoying, but after forty there are many examples of mature black leaders, taking on responsibility for others like a sort of tribal elder. The deep voiced, responsible black man can recognize foolishness and tell the younger members of the community to not act like children. Avery Brooks and Laurence Fishburne typify this type of mature, responsible black person. FOX sports announcer James Brown shows maturity among his white peers, and demonstrates the "career black" man who can handle a professional job without devolving into typical black stereotypes. Thus after forty or fifty, a black man can be a successful lawyer, doctor, or other profession as portrayed on TV.
>>24
Why does the fact that they are african american make you want to jerk off? Racist.
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Anonymous2008-03-01 14:24
You don't know the struggles blacks have to deal with to even approach the privileges of white society. Professor Zonday writes that while some stay dry, others feel the pain. This can be clearly seen man builds a tent to say the world is dry. His work further explores the effects of rampant drug use in Zambia.
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Anonymous2008-03-01 14:31
One case study demonstrates that a black adolescent, separated from a life of bullying in a lower class neighborhood, can be transported to a rich white suburb and live a perfectly normal life. Thus the issue is one of poverty and living conditions, not genetics or inherent racial inferiority. Of course the youth must adjust to this new way of life, flying first class, and seeing orange juice poured into a champagne glass.
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Anonymous2008-03-01 15:16
>>29
But there are genetic differences between people so that does not invalidate individual based eugenics, just race based eugenics. We must continue to persecute poor people and push for measures to stop them from contaminating the future gene pool.
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Anonymous2008-03-01 15:48
The new residence in this case shows a clear demonstration of the aunt and uncle having climbed the social ladder to achieve a stable and successful lifestyle. It should at least serve as a model for other youths to emulate.
Without black people in US history, we would be intolerant of other races and have a harder time dealing with the international struggles we deal with today. More isolationist policies would dominate as xenophobia would stifle interaction with other races.
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Anonymous2008-03-03 18:23
George Washington Carver was an inventor and agricultural pioneer, who advocated crop rotation, sustainable agriculture and agricultural education. He created over one hundred peanut based products including cosmetics, dyes, paints, plastics, gasoline and nitroglycerin. He patented several hundred applications of peanuts, sweet potatoes, cowpeas, soybeans and pecans, including adhesives, axle grease, bleach, buttermilk, chili sauce, fuel briquettes, ink, instant coffee, linoleum, mayonnaise, meat tenderizer, metal polish, paper, plastic, pavement, shaving cream, shoe polish, synthetic rubber, talcum powder and wood stain.
Carver's original uses for peanuts include radical substitutes for existing products such as gasoline and nitroglycerin. These products remain mysterious because Carver never published his formulas, except for his peanut cosmetic patent. From peanuts he patented 30 cloth dyes, 19 leather dyes, 18 insulating boards, 17 wood stains, 11 wall boards and 11 peanut flours, and from sweet potatoes he patented 73 dyes, 17 wood fillers, 14 candies, 5 library pastes, 5 breakfast foods, 4 starches, 4 flours and 3 molasses.
Carver is credited with having introduced the first peanut based writing system, meant to teach deaf children how to read and write. He developed the first electric transistor using peanuts. His studies in harmonics lead to the first telegraph system using wire, string and two peanut shells. His most intriguing invention was a combustion engine that could run entirely on peanut oil, and a series of high grade military explosives using peanut butter as an accelerant.
Mark Richard Shuttleworth (born 18 September 1973) is a South African entrepreneur who was the second self-funded space tourist and first African in space. He is best known for his leadership of the Ubuntu Linux distribution.
So there you go. An African spaceman with his own Linux distribution.
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Anonymous2008-03-05 15:40
Negros are a failed race... just come to terms with it.
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Anonymous2008-03-05 16:40
I dont hate you because you're black, I hate you because you act like an animal yet have the same rights as me. You ought to be someone's property like other animals.
>>40
>BAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW I'M A RETARDED LOSER AND THE ONLY WAY I CAN LIVE WITH MYSELF IS CLAIMING TO BE BETTER THAN -ALL- BLACK PEOPLE EVEN THOUGH I ACCOMPLISHED NOTHING IN MY LIFE
Race has nothing to do with it. This isn't a race issue.
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Anonymous2008-03-06 8:34
>>41
You should be in chains in my plantation, instead of these illegal immigrants I "hired". Looking at them slave my fields makes me so angry since it was you who put them in that position by denying the fact you ought to be enslaved.
>>44
I understand. However perhaps with the crack of a whip behind your back you might achieve something in your life. Have you ever thought about that?
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Anonymous2008-03-06 13:12
This is the OP. Though I was only testing you, you have proven to me that there are no smart black people. Have a good day.
>>49
You may not achieve much as a slave but at least your contribution to humanity will be out of the red. I believe relinquishing your freedom is a worthy trade for the knowledge that you are not a leach to society.
>>50
>leach to society
I think you should learn to spell before making more of your butthurt crying which stands as a testament your retardation and failure at life.
You forget that mr Jackson also said in the same essay (paraphrase):
I need fornication; for its animalistic lack of connection. I don't need love.
He went on to say:
Christopher Charles Lloyd once took a meeting with me and said to change the way I express myself, to be more 'marketable.' If others call you a 'whore' and slander you, let them; the financial gain will be immense beyond all measure.
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Anonymous2008-03-16 23:56
We forget that Hakeem Seriki once wrote on constant fear of being apprehended by the police. He would often carry a pistol in his vehicle just for protection, and said the officers would repeatedly profile him based on the color of his skin.
>>54
"leech" is the word you were looking for. But a good try at hiding your retardation and making your American origins even more explicit (then again, the stupidity had made it obvious).
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Anonymous2008-03-17 9:59
>>53
Color of skin? You mean THAT'S what all this racism is about? Then all we need to do is find the Albino gene, make future blacks white, then they will lift themselves out of poverty, start making groundbreaking intellectual contributions, and turn Africa into the next world superpower. Why didn't anyone think of this already?
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Anonymous2008-03-17 10:06
>>53
PROTIP: If your trying to argue AGAINST cops racial profiling don't use the example of a lowlife rapper who raps about committing crime on every song. I guess your too dumb to see why though.
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Anonymous2008-03-17 14:26
>>57
I see that your dim wit prevents you from understanding the point, which pushes you to make retarded and ironic comments. Interesting...
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Anonymous2008-03-17 15:34
>>58
"you're"
What a fucking retard! They should return to the fields.
You don't understand. He says that they see him while he's in his own vehicle, they actively patrol the streets, and in their own hate, they try to catch him travelling with contraband. Even if his music is loud, police think they can see him despite his tinted glass windows, behind which he has a TV screen and a Playstation. He usually travels with a female in his car. He keeps a weapon for self defense in case of a car jacking. He says he can speak for some members of the black community, but not all of them. He keeps his windows down due to rampant pollution. He wonders who produces today's music, but can do nothing about it. Even though he has active warrants for his arrest, he doesn't consider himself to be on the losing end. He drinks and smokes in his vehicle because he needs to focus, but he remains inconspicious enough not to be noticed by law enforcement. Even though they try to catch him in the wrong, their denying is racial profiling. Police constantly check his license plate number when travelling in Houston, and on some occasions he even has to bribe police officers because he knows the majority of them are corrupt, and try to approach him fasitiduously, while leaving upset when they find no evidence of contraband in his vehicle. Even though they are unable to arrest or sue him, he feels anger at the current state of law enforcement, at certain times wishing he could approach an officer's house and have a physical confrontation. For the entire duration of this period, they try to arrest him with contraband in his vehicle.
Where the hood, where the hood, where the hood at?
Have that nigga in the cut, where the wood at?
Oh, them niggaz actin up?!? Where the wolves at?
You better BUST THAT if you gon pull that
Where the hood, where the hood, where the hood at?
Have that nigga in the cut, where the wood at?
Oh, them niggaz actin up?!? Where the wolves at?
You better BUST THAT if you gon pull that
Man, cats don't know what it's gonna be
messin with a dog like me, D-to-the-M-to-the-X
Last I heard, y'all cowards was havin sex, with the same sex
I show no love......
Empty out, reloaded and throw more slugs
How you gonna explain born in a man?
Even if we squashed the beef, I ain't touchin ya hand
I don't mess with chumps, for those to been to jail
That's the cat with the Kool-Aid on his lips and pumps
I can't deal with brother that think they broads
Only know how to be one way, that's the dog
I know how to get down, know how to bite, bite
Bark very little, but I know how to fight, fight
I know how to chase a cat up in the tree
man, i'll give you cowards the business for messin wot me
ay you crazy!
Once a song, I come though, guns is drawn
BLAM BLAM, lungs are gone, sons will mourn
From dusk till dawn, nighttime belongs to the dog
On the street passed midnight, look for 'em in the morgue
Don't play with these cats cuz I ain't got nothin to say to these cats
For the mothers that really do love em, please pray for these cats
Cuz I know they all is hardheaded but I ain't got the patience
Don't want me havin no patience turn into more patience
More trips to I.C.U cuz I see you
Tryna get away with things a real wouldn't do
Where my dogs at? (right here) See them niggaz? (right there)
get em boy! (right there) That's how we do... (aiight then)
This is for my dogs, this is for my dogs
yo, where we at baby?!? (creepin through the fog)
From then till now, don't ask me how
Know that we gon roll like them chaps and hit every block on the job
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Anonymous2008-03-19 17:01
Blessed with the talented format
I'm kickin the earth like a doormat
The more I grow the more I understand
And I don't really care about a grafted man
Cause he wants to mold me, shape and carve me
But I use my mind like Marcus Garvey
Dr. King was a man with the new faith
They got rid of him, that was the last day
Clueless clucks, the men of a Klan
Cult to crucify the intelligent blackman
Honoured as African and die as a dweller
Reach out to teach like Nelson Mandela
Power for all my people
The Rebel's back and the brothers are equal
So let's unite so we can all resist him
Black, the shade of the solar system
Freedom of speech, I scream it loud
Proud to be black cause black I'm proud
'm livin this race like a marathon
And I'm goin out like Farrakhan
But he's not out cause the brother is all in
The blackman was here since the day it began
Beware, the cursed seed is out there
Tragedy will live for a light year
As long as we fight and go all out for each other
Black'll be the color of my brothers
Find your ancestors and what they did
Cause intelligent blacks built pyramids
Seek and obtain, you'll find descriptions
Pyramids were built by Egyptians
Who put up plantations to work the fastest
Mothers and sisters raped by slavemasters
Gamed by the devil and swift talkers
And till this day my brothers are sleepwalkers
Tricked by the devil to feel inferior
In all reality my people are superior
Freedom of speech, I scream it loud
Proud to be black cause black I'm proud
Born a freedom fighter, here to keep fightin
Illustratin the issue on a government item
Africa is in need but the government's steppin
Collectin taxes for testin weapons
You can stand by the Rebel cause I know it's gonna be
A better day, another way, I'm proud to say
Black is dominant and here to stay
Before this day I cannot wait
To see who will win over love and hate
Use your brain, don't kill it with base
A mind is a terrible thing to waste
Hannibal conquered Europe on elephants
Another blackman of intelligence
We grow with the black complex
But we should be encouraged by Malcolm X
With freedom of speech he spoke it loud
(No sellout, no sellout)
Proud to be black cause black he was proud
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Anonymous2008-03-19 17:03
We made men in this world, digging for bones
The untraceable ones come with no clones
100 years from now y'all can still get this bomb
on the Brand Nubian dot com
My name should be mentioned with the Portier, not the Gualtier
although it smell good, I still get mad at Rosewood
A Nubian card member since that faithful December
In the 80 years, from tears to cheers, things we did should be listed in a pyramid, studied by a little kid
Talked about by old jacks with slacks
Can I move the black is my first and foremost
Can I get a little land for me and mine?
Grow vegetables, maybe make a little wine
Build with the Gods and the bright sunshine
Before we save others we gotta save our own kind
"I'm black and I'm proud" "Say it loud" "I'm black and I'm proud"
"Say it loud" "I'm black and I'm proud"
"Say it loud" "I'm black and I'm proud"
"Say it loud"
Now did you know it was you who was first to walk the Earth
Gave birth to the Universe, uh
Afflicted with the curse of the slave
Predicted to inherit the earth in the last days
Now as we take you home, what we make our own
It's written in stone like Commandments
Read them every now and then or when you get the chance
Catch a glance through the power lens, see if you could see us advance
G-O-D in the dance, reporting freelance
Fought for a chance, got you hanging by the seat of your pants
Our immediate stance when we came to the game
was completely advanced so no one sounds the same
7 and one-half ounces of brain
When we around make sure you bow down to the king
Brand Nubian style is how we do our thing
So if you feel good, real good
scream it out loud if you black and you proud
Feel me now, check my style
A brother's resume run longer than the Nile
Justice cipher born to teach man, woman and child
in the land of the lost where my people went foul
Do the knowledge, black, look at the way that we act
Smoking crack or each other with the gat
The only race of people who kill self like that
I deal with actual facts to keep my mind on track
I love y'all that's why I say these things
Watch me transform chickenheads to queens
Rhymes full of protein like rice and beans
Brand Nubian cats here to change all that
The maker, the owner, the cream of the Earth
Proud to be black because the black man's first
My flow frequency is at a million megahertz
So when I spit my verbals I'm heard around the Universe
So don't front, say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud
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Anonymous2008-03-19 17:09
What means the world to me? Snappin bras, menage-a-trois
What means the world to me? Smokin hash, slappin ass
What means the world to me? Breakin laws, racin cars
What means the world to me? Makin bail, A-T-L
What mean the world to me?
When I bang hoes, sky blue Range Rov's
Stop comin to my crib with your period
Serious bitch, and you act like I ain't know
I like my dishes deep, I like when I twist a freak
I like when her man find out, wanna call Cam's house
Laugh when he went for me; I tell him
Women are trife - yeah I been in your wife
but do me a favor, dog
Don't call here again in your life, I'm killer
Atlanta I bubbled, in Memphis I hustled
In Kansas I juggle, New York, all my muscle we tussle
Listen you would too, if you knew
what this game would do to you
Been in this shit, two years Boo
Look at all the bullshit I been through
So called beef with you know who (who?)
But I got macs, gats
Nine nine's times nine, blow, blow, OW! (owww)
Let me tell 'em what'll mean the world
Ludacris and a couple a girls
You find a brotha runnin up in the girls
I get 'em drunk, chugga-luggin the girls
Ding-a-ling face huggin the girls
I get late - think I'm up with the girls?
Skeet, skeet, gone; it's all about that party
Bacardi - motions, rub lotion, all over your body
What means the world to me?
A little head preferably, so I express this verbally
And I don't care, I just want somebody to braid my hair
Cause I keeps it nappy, I'm happy, and I got my word and ball
That's all I need in this world, plus a little bit of alcohol
A box of Phillies and tig ol' bitties in fifty cities
I set it out after shows and the club is comin with me
I'm black and proud, I'm black and loud, I'm black and high
And it really mean the world to me
if I live my life, stay black and die
Uhh, c'mon, yo, yo
What mean the world to me?
Gettin money fuckin girls for free
On the corner hustlin from twelve to three
Cook coke, make twelve from three, uhh
Bottle up, it'll sell for three
Two for five, sound well to me
My coke so good have them fiends outside
on line from twelve to three (uh-huh)
And everything'll stop in the winter
when I cop in the winter
Come to your block in a drop in the winter
Chinchilla top in the top of the drop in the winter
Gotta make it hot in the winter, uhh
Post on your block with the glock with the cops
And the shit'll still pop in the winter
What mean the world to you?
Breakin laws, racin cars (HO!)
What mean the world to you?
[My house, my rocks, and my Bentley drop (OW!)
What mean the world to you?
Shoppin sprees in a Prada shop (HO!)
What mean the world to you?
Ladies? (HO!)
Fellas (OW!)
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Anonymous2008-03-19 17:10
Uhh, what mean the world to Pimp?
My paper, steak and shrimp
My bitches on the track
For they daddy, bringin it back
Pussy is still the best thing going
I got a hoe like Jesse Owens
I used to sell dope, ride dirty, cocaine scorin
Sellin D wasn't for me, I gotta keep the prostitutes hoe'n
Comin through, sittin low, in the C-F-I double-oh
Platinum with the twenty inches
Instrument to get the bitches
Comin down, prancin 'round
Gettin my dick sucked in every town
Sweet Jones, fuck the clone
Rippin wood, in the Brougham
Bitch I got some game to sell
and only money make my dick swell
Hold up.. beitch, Sweet Jones
Man, now what mean the world to me?
Well, to me man, the world is mean
Cause a - mean world is the only world
that a mean man like me just care for seein
Now ever-green I smoke, forever clean I croak
The average Bun B Texas loc'
The savage choked out, smoked out up in the mezzanine
Now I'm just a fiend, hooked for the mic
Bless the scene, look for the dyke
I get a letter and know that we better
Hit the hotel, do what I like
What's that? Find a fresh one take it in
Strip it, flip it, break it in
My pimp game is rock solid
There's no way for you to bring fakin in
Now we makin men, outta boys, or makin boys wormy
Cause we bust bigger guns, got bigger nuts
And when they go off they make a lotta noise
And I can't think of no prouder joys
than money, big cheese and a girl or two sheeit
That's what the world mean to me mayn
Tell me what the world mean to you, huh
That's what the world mean to me mayn
Tell me what the world mean to you, huh
I know y'all wonder, who the female stunner, in the G-G-Hunter
Ridin 'round town in a hot pink Hummer, hot like summer
With the diamond bangles
like Charlie's Angels, you can't knock my hustle
And I need my bread up front playboy, cause I can't trust ya
I'm just like a phone bill, if you don't pay me, ain't no conversation
And money mean the world to me, that's why this bitch here paper chasin
When it comes to the figures
I'm way way worse than them hustlin niggaz
With the ki's to the coke, for the mansion
the Bentley and the keys to the boat
I take that dick real, real, real deep to the throat
I'm from the M-I-A, that's where I dwell, niggaz can't you tell
I'm bad as hell, even my pussy smell like Chanelle
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Anonymous2008-03-28 14:23
Ill-educated black people far outnumber educated black people.
Pretty sad really, considering the black power movement started in the US, but it seems American blacks are worse off than most.
As a black person in the UK I can tell you the situation isn't much better here.
In my view it's basically down to the fact that ignorant black people get put on a pedestal to further the old racist stereotypes that no white person dare mention today.
This is why you see stuff like Souljah Boy, which to me reminds me of the minstrels with the white lips against dark black skin, promoting black people to behave like idiots and degrade themselves. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MQFlxtSmHY
Whereas there are far fewer intelligent black role models out there.
First of all I don't ascribe to that culture, it isn't mine. Secondly, the simplest explanation would be that people behave in a way that benefits them the most.
Finally, To be honest I don't see the point of you posting, when you aren't even willing to state point in full.
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Anonymous2008-03-28 15:04
>>74
*correction*
Finally, To be honest I don't see the point of you posting, when you aren't even willing to state your point in full.
Sorry if it's already been said. The black AVERAGE is 15pts below white AVERAGE. This doesn't change the fact that a huge black dude schooled me in EE 201. It just means there aren't many black people at his level.
>>80
The people who don't understand the meaning of "average" are the ones ironically lowering the mean for their own race.
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Anonymous2008-03-31 14:50
>>40
that goes for any person for any race. In fact fuck race, race is a construct with no real base in genetics. there simply is not line that can be drawn that seperates races, only culture, and that is precarious at best. Take a black baby and put him in a good home with decent parents and watch him grow into a productive member of society. Take a white baby and put him in a broken home with no money and surround him in a culture which promotes violence and stupidity and watch him turn into a nigger. I consider myself an example of the former.
Itt we misunderstand race. If you're feeling but hurt and whiny nigger, goto /b/.
Take a black and put him in a good home and he'll still be dumber and more prone to violence and drug abuse than a white child. That is the fact of the matter nigger.
Race has a genetic basis and statistics suggest whites in the same environment as blacks generally do better.
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Anonymous2008-04-01 2:39
>>4
Except by realizing that it all sucks. Really hard.
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Anonymous2008-04-01 2:43
>>13
I know a lot of urkels. They tend to hang out with white kids. Why? because the fucking apes only care about getting their girlfriends pregnant and busting caps, making sure they're all badass. The smart black kids are the ones who don't buy in for whatever reason.
I honestly believe that there might be a genetic component too, I mean, how can there be some many utter fuckups in a population?
By DONNA BRYSON, Associated Press Writer Thu Oct 9, 2:46 PM ET
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Some rural Zimbabweans facing one of the hungriest years they could remember have been forced to live on a meal a day and in some cases only on wild fruits, the U.N. food aid agency said Thursday.
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In a video Lee shot of the aid distribution, villagers were shown painstakingly picking kernels off the ground after a handful of grain spilled. They were shown shaking off the dust and placing the food carefully in bags before hauling it home on their backs, in wheelbarrows, or on burros.
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Lee said the World Food Program found Zimbabweans getting by on one meal a day, of corn meal porridge and a few vegetables for the lucky, but only wild fruits for others.
The U.N. estimates 45 percent of Zimbabwe's population, or 5.1 million people, will need food help by early 2009. The food agency said its stocks would run out in January — "at the very peak of the crisis" — if it did not get more help from donors.
The agency said it has received almost $175 million this year for Zimbabwe, but needs more to fund emergency operations through April. The agency's main donors for Zimbabwe include the United States and Britain, two of Mugabe's sharpest critics.
Mugabe blames his country's economic woes on Western sanctions, but his critics point to farm seizures he ordered in 2000. Most of the best farms went to Mugabe loyalists instead of impoverished blacks he said he wanted to help. The farms lie idle, devastating the economy's agricultural base.
Zimbabwe's infrastructure also was deteriorating, leading to diseases like cholera.
The Herald, a state-controlled Zimbabwe newspaper, reported Thursday that a cholera outbreak in northern Zimbabwe has prompted police to destroy fruit, vegetables, meat, fish and bread sold by illegal vendors and suspected of spreading the outbreak.
As Zimbabweans suffer shortages of food, medicine, hard currency and cash, power-sharing negotiations between Mugabe and his main political rivals have been stalled. Until the political impasse over who gets which key Cabinet posts is broken, Zimbabwean leaders cannot turn their full attention to their growing humanitarian crisis.
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai called for former South African President Thabo Mbeki, a mediator in past talks, to intervene, telling reporters in the Zimbabwean capital Harare that his party wanted a "fair" power-sharing deal that allows them to address the economic crisis and restore democratic freedoms.
Tsvangirai accused Mugabe's party of trying to cling to too many key ministries. Mugabe's party has accused the opposition of holding up an agreement and negotiating in public.
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Anonymous2008-10-10 4:37
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Obviously colonialism and evil whitey is responsible for all of this.